Greetings! This week, we are going to record, transcribe, and publish interviews of people in our community. We want to better understand how people are responding to the Coronavirus' impact right now. IMPORTANT: I am not asking you to do these in person, but rather by using two cell phones: 1 used as a speakerphone 1 used as the actual audio recording device. If you do not have access to two phones, please contact me! MINI-PROJECT OUTCOME: A) Each student will have created a written transcription of their interview. B) If possible, each student can have an audio/video recorded interview. 1. A Little Context: Why Oral Histories Are Important-Watch this VIDEO from Dr. Z of Concordia about why Oral Histories are important. -Read this brief handout from Baylor University that has their take on why Oral Histories are important. -Write me an email to check in and explain in a short paragraph why Oral Histories are important to researchers. 2. Select A SubjectTo the best of our ability, we want to choose someone to interview that we know, but don't live with. Think of someone's parent or sibling from another family, for example. Interviewing our direct family members is not ideal because of the potential "conflict of interest" according to my friend, Rob, who is working on his PHD in Anthropology. Talk to me if you need help finding a subject. Once you've selected your subject, set up an interview for Wednesday or later in the week! -Ask for 30 minutes of time to interview. Interview's should be in between 30 min.-1 hour. -Set up the time and location. Please, be safe and opt for interviewing using phones. 3. Pre-Interview: Develop Questions-Before the Interview: Watch this VIDEO from the York Region District School Board to get an overview of a normal process would look like. What will be the differences in how we conduct our Oral Histories? -Develop a list of 25 interview questions. If you need help, check this out. -Submit your draft of questions to Stephen as a Google Doc by Wednesday 8:30am. - 4. Class Meeting: 12pm on WednesdayI'll give you the next steps and answer all your questions here. Please make it and let me know via email if you cannot!
Today's Class Meeting, 12pm-1pmIt's Friday! Let's hang out and chat!
We're starting a mini-project Monday, and it's going to be super fun. Check the DP on Monday morning for the low down! Today's Assignment: Due Thursday at MidnightRead the following articles: A Lesson From The Spanish Influenza Colorado's Other Pandemic Tell Us Your Pandemic Stories We have a unique opportunity to share our own stories right now as well as those around us. What's missing from the first two articles you read? One thing stands out to me: voices of the youth.
To start, I would like you to capture your life right now as we are quarantined at home. You can approach this writing assignment however you would like, but the goal is to create an artifact that we can look back on when this all has passed. What was life like before? What is life like now? How have things changed for you thus far? Tell us your daily routine while at home and away from school. You all have particular insights as young people and students that will be invaluable for future historians to look back on. To this end, I'd like you to begin creating a primary source of your own experience with the Coronavirus. This can be as long as you want it to be. There are, simply put, no rules--no TEA paragraphs, for sure. Just put your heart into it. To put it in school language, "In a well developed essay, share your own experience thus far with the Coronavirus." Please submit this to me via email by Thursday night so we can share with other on Friday. I'd like to hold a class meeting on Friday from 12pm-1pm to share our experiences with each other. Eventually, I would like us to do the work of actual historians to collect other peoples' stories from our community so we can be of service to future historians and researchers. I miss you all very much and hope you're doing well. As always, please let me know if there's anything I can do to make this online school experience better for you! I'm just an email away! Sincerely, Stephen TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT: DUE TUESDAY AT 11:59PMHI GANG! So, it looks like we have several more weeks of online time together--through the end of April, at least.
Based on your feedback, I want to do a few smaller projects for the rest of this April. Then, I'll have a special project for us to wrap up the year--hopefully given in person, but certainly adaptable for online learning. Continuing to reflect on feedback from last week, I heard a loud resounding request for studying history. YES! We're going to gear up for a super sweet Oral History mini project where we study some history but also DO THE WORK of being historians because #ANIMAS! This idea came to me last night when I should have been sleeping, so give me two days to pull everything together for you. In the meantime, I want to do a history lesson today. Our current situation with COVID-19 harkens back to the early 20th Century--the Spanish Flu pandemic. You might have heard, but we've been in a similar albeit very different situation before with COVID-19. So, with an eye towards history thinking I'd like you to listen to a remarkable podcast that Sara Price shared with you and me from NPR. It's about 40 minutes long, so we'll use this resource for 2 days. MONDAY: Take notes as you listen or read the transcript. Shoot for a solid 1/2 page -1 page of notes. TUESDAY: Answer the following questions and submit to Stephen through email by the end of the day. -What did you already know about the Spanish Flu? -Where did the Spanish Flu originate and was its name derived? -Name and explain 3 similarities between the Spanish Flu and the COVID-19. -Name and explain 3 differences between the Spanish Flu and COVID-19. -Who are the authors of this source? Do they seem to have a certain perspective or bias? What is their level of credibility? Can we trust this information? How do you know? -If a historian was to discover this source 100 years from now, what would they be able to learn about our current society and/or culture? -What are 2 questions you have about the Spanish Flu? Research and find the answers! Use your lateral reading skills as you go! *You should use Wikipedia. It's a great place to start your research. I'll have some Oral History freshness for you on Wednesday. Come back to the DP then! Turning in QuarintuneToday's Office Hours Link 10am-11:30am Hey everyone! In the spirit of community, I'd like you to share your Quarintune Google Doc link in the comments section of the blog. Then, I'd like to make sure that we all comment on as many of our classmates work as possible. It'll be fun, I hope! Plan to leave 3 comments and try to spread them out! Let's get ready for some online project work this next week, and thanks for tapping into your creative writing skills this week for our soft entry into what's our new new normal through at least the end of April. Oh, and check out this article about Zoom. I wonder if we should use it anymore or not...let me know if you or your family have thoughts about it. All the best, S Today's AssignmentBack by popular demand, I present you a Quarantine edition of the "My Jam" assignment from back in August. Hope you're enjoying this soft entry into our work time together. It's been wonderful hearing from you all, and shoutout to Julia G. for hitting Office Hours on Wednesday! Hope you're treating yourself kindly and getting outside a little...at a safe distance. : 0 DUE: Friday at the end of the day. This is your assignment for Thursday and Friday. Quarantunes! Click here!SPECIAL NOTE: Yes, your family members are always welcome to complete assignments and submit them to me via email!
Today's AssignmentWrite 15 questions you have for the universe. Challenge Extension: include an answer key. Post your writing in the comments section on this blog entry by the end of today. In other news, it looks like we're moving into a mini hybrid project period this next week that will last until April 17. Some of us will continue our Technology Projects, some of us will move into a new project I'm working on, and some will opt to hone their history and writing skills through Kahn Academy. Thanks for the feedback, everybody! Miss you all very much! Office HoursEveryday this week from 10am-12pm. It's a ZOOM Meeting. Just click here to join!
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